vidyava

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by vidyava 1mo ago
While I agree that the brain can generally block it out once you accept it, I'll add that sometimes (for some people) it goes from a constant tone to intermittent chirping. The first time mine layered in a "typewriter tinnitus&quo
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by vidyava 5mo ago
I personally would rather show actual data over interpolated data, but I don't know how many unphysical interpolation artifacts you're getting or whether that really matters at a public outreach level. That said, if you felt like
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by vidyava 5mo ago
I'll add that "raw" is after a bit of postprocessing to make it pretty. When the SDO webserver went down a few months ago I rebuilt the L1 data processing pipeline from JSOC so we could still do outreach and there's a su
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by vidyava 1y ago
Even having a Gmail address doesn't make you immune from someone putting in the wrong address. I made a throwaway/spam account with a silly name back in ~2007, and then in ~2015 someone established a fairly successful company with
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by vidyava 1y ago
Serious question, but what is the best practice for keeping n-dimensional arrays organized/labeled? Pandas? Xarray? Converting everything to netcdf before using it?
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by vidyava 2y ago
If you're using a browser with heavy anti-fingerprinting capabilities it will upload a randomized canvas image instead of the intended image, and you'll get a lot of descriptions of pictures of wavy lines and no people.
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by vidyava 2y ago
I also switched over a year or so ago and find it a significant improvement with one notable exception: in TST when you hover over a collapsed tab group it would show you a list of all tabs in the group while Sidebery doesn't. Similarl
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by vidyava 2y ago
My first thought was gut hook knife, but if it's especially question mark shaped it could be a "rescue knife". They often have a backwards facing cutting edge for seatbelts and the like. Example: https://eknives.co
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by vidyava 2y ago
I've found that WhisperX with the medium model has been amazing at subtitling shows containing English dialects (British, Scottish, Australian, New Zealand-ish). It not only nails all the normal speech, but even gets the names and comp
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by vidyava 3y ago
What I wish I had, and maybe someone here knows of something that fulfills the role, is a means of providing erroneous information about myself to data brokers. I'd like to insert some fake addresses, wrong phone numbers, made up famil